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December 2,1999
Volume 101, Issue 66
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RAIN LIKELY
Not just for women
Men who decide to take classes within the Women’s Studies
department are likely to find an atmosphere of tolerance and
new perspectives. PAGE 3A
Ducks aren’t looking back
The resignation of head coach Cathy Nelson and the third
last-place conference finish in five years made the 1999
volleyball season one to forget. PAGE 11A
University President Dave Frohnmayer speaks frankly about adjusting to life after his near-fatal heart arrhythmia suffered this October.
Scott Barnett Emerald
In addition to easing back
into his normal routine,
Ffohnmayer receives an
award and co-captains
the Civil War
By Jessica Blanchard
Oregon Daily Emerald
Just more than a month after suffering a
near-fatal heart arrhythmia, University
President Dave Frohnmayer said he’s final
ly getting back into the swing of things.
“It’s probably remarkable that I’m walk
ing and talking at all, given the amount of
time it took for my resuscitation,” Frohn
mayer said. “I’m not sure I could win the
100 yard dash against anybody now, but I
feel much stronger. ”
On Oct. 22, Frohnmayer collapsed while
at a National Institutes of Health conference
in Bethesda, Md. Frohnmayer was hospital
ized for eight days before returning home to
Oregon. Doctors implanted a cardio-defib
rillator in his chest to monitor the heart’s
rhythm and deliver an electric shock if an
other arrhythmia occurs.
“When most people are hit by this, they
simply die,” he said. “I was very lucky.”
Frohnmayer said his illness made him
take a step back and look at his life.
“On some level, we all think we’re im
mortal,” he said. “So to have a sense, even
temporarily, of your mortality is very hum
bling.”
The Value of Life
One of the first things he said he remem
bers thinking upon regaining consciousness
was that he couldn’t die without finding a
cure for his daughter’s lethal illness. Frohn
mayer’s daughter, Amy, suffers from Fan
Turn to Frohnmayer, Page 7A
University
inaugurates
new center
■ Burton Richter, a Nobel Prize
winner for his work in high-energy
physics, speaks at the center’s
opening about the field’s new research
By Darren Freeman
Oregon Daily Emerald
The University solidified particle
physics research efforts Wednesday by
opening the Center for High Energy
Physics. The inaugural event in Willamette
Hall Wednesday afternoon culminated
when A/obel Prize winning physicist and
Stanford professor Burton Richter dis
cussed new research in the field of particle
physics.
The center, in 414 Willamette, will be an
organizational hub for the University’s
high-energy physics research, which ad
dresses the sub-atomic particles that make
up the universe.
Richter, who recently retired from his
post as director of Stanford’s world
renowned high-energy research facility,
said before the lecture that the new center
would greatly benefit University physics
research.
“When you pull a group like this to
gether, they can work more effectively,”
Richter said. “And frankly they can pull
more money out of Washington, which is
very important to physics studies.”
Because high-energy physicists rely on
multi-million dollar devices to peer into
the sub-atomic world, research facilities
are limited. For example, one device at the
Stanford facility that detects charged and
neutral particles cost $65 million to con
struct, Richter said.
For that reason, high-energy researchers
have only five major research facilities in
the world — two in the United States, two
in Europe and one in Japan.
Physics professor David Strong, whose
research will soon take him to Geneva, said
the concentration of high energy physics
research has positively affected the disci
pline.
Though University high energy physi
cists have to travel throughout the world,
science professor and director of the new
Turn to Speaker, Page 9A
University sophomore wins the HIV Alliance’s Youth Award
Award winner
Shoshana
Ungerleider says
she was inspired
by those living
with the disease
By Edward Yuen
Oregon Daily Emerald
University student Shoshana Ungerlei
der is the winner of the HIV Alliance’s
Youth Award, the 1999 Ribbon of Hope
Award, in recognition of her work in
HIV/AIDS education through the Alliance.
Ungerleider, a sophomore pre-medicine
major, said she started working with
HIV/AIDS prevention when she was a stu
dent in Sheldon High School. She was a
member of the school’s AIDS Prevention
and Education Team and taught high
school sophomores about sexually trans
mitted diseases. She met people from the
HIV Alliance when the organization
brought in guest speakers to talk about HIV
and AIDS at Sheldon High.
Ungerleider said she was inspired by the
guest speakers, who were either HIV posi
tive or AIDS patients. She said the guest
speakers put a face to the disease in their
speeches, helping her to make the decision
to pursue a career in health science. She
also said the HIV Alliance changed her life
and affected her thoughts about HIV and
AIDS.
Darnell Mandelblatt, development direc
tor of the HIV Alliance, said she considers
Ungerleider an asset to the organization.
Mandelblatt said Ungerleider helped or
ganize the River Walk, a fund-raising event
that took place in May this year, by setting
up a table outside the University Bookstore
to get more students involved.
Mandelblatt also said she was impressed
with Ungerleider’s efforts to get written en
dorsements from political and community
leaders in Eugene. University head football
Turn to Award, Page 4A
Who: Shoshana
Ungerleider
What: 1999 Ribbon
of Hope Award re
cipient
Why; For continued
dedication in
HiV/AlDS educa
tion through the
HIV Alliance